Sunday, December 25, 2011

Nazareth carpenter being held on charges involving underage mother and child

abuse

December 25, 2011, Eastern El Paso County, Colorado – Authorities were today alerted by an anonymous call from a concerned citizen who noticed a family living in a barn. Upon arrival, Department of Human Services Child Protective Service (EPC DHS) personnel, accompanied by sheriffs deputies, took into protective custody an infant child, who had been wrapped in strips of cloth and placed in a feeding trough by his 14-year old mother, Maria of Nazareth, Texas.

During the confrontation, a man identified as Joseph, also of Nazareth, Texas, attempted to stop the social workers. Joseph, aided by several local shepherds and some unidentified foreigners, tried to forestall efforts to take the child, but were restrained by deputies.

Also being held for questioning are three foreigners who allege to be wise men from an eastern country. ICE (La Migra) and Homeland Security officials are seeking information about these wise guys who may be in the country illegally. A source with ICE states that they had no passports, but were in possession of gold and other possibly illegal substances, and claimed to be following a star in the west. They resisted arrest saying that they had been warned by God to avoid officials and to return quickly to their own country. The chemical substances in their possession will be tested and the “star in the west” is apparently a light on Pikes Peak.

The owner of the barn is also being held for questioning and faces charges for violating health and safety regulations by allowing people to stay in the stable. Civil authorities are also investigating possible zoning violations involved in maintaining livestock in a commercially-zoned district.

The location of the infant will not be released, and the prospect for a quick resolution to this case is doubtful. Asked about when the child would be returned to his mother, a Child Protective Service spokesperson said, “The father is middle-aged and the mother definitely underage. We are checking with officials in Nazareth, Texas, to determine what their legal relationship is.”

Joseph has admitted taking Maria from her home in Nazareth because of a problem about a “green card.”

However, because she was obviously pregnant when they left, investigators are looking into other reasons for their departure. Joseph is being held without bond on charges of molestation, kidnapping, child endangerment, and statutory rape.

Maria was taken to Memorial Hospital where she is being examined by doctors. Charges may also be filed against her for endangerment. She will also undergo psychiatric evaluation because of her claim that she is a virgin and that the child is the Son of God.

The director of the psychiatric wing said,

“I don’t profess to have the right to tell people what to believe, but when their beliefs adversely affect the safety and well-being of others – in this case her child – we must consider her a danger to others. The unidentified drugs at the scene didn’t help her case, but I’m confidant that with the proper therapy regimen we can get her back on her feet.”

A spokesperson for EPC DHS said,

“Who knows what was going through their heads? But regardless, their treatment of the child was inexcusable, and the involvement of these others frightening. There is much we don’t know about this case, but for the sake of the child and the public, you can be assured that we will pursue this matter to the end.”

Feliz Navidad!

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The Unknown History of MISANDRY received this news and we wished to let the public know just how good this news was:

Prognosis: The unfortunate child will certainly receive help in the form of a cocktail of 6 psychotropic drugs and early entry into a pre-school operative conditioning education course -- after, of course, being placed with a lesbian foster couple (chosen because, as a recent controlled longitudinal study “proves,” lesbians never ever engage in domestic violence). If all goes as planned, the child will become a “person,” and then, after surgery, a woman, and finally will be appointed the first transgender dictator of the North American Fairness Region.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

If you would gain a throne and hold it, fear not to make of human skulls thy stepping stones.

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As a woman dealing with men, let dissimulation be thy watch-word. Let no man know thy secret thoughts and ambitions.

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If another woman stand in thy way, take her to thy bosom; if a man, beguile and marry him.

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Harden thy heart to all pity, all remorse; then shall thy mind and heart be free, without scruple, to gain high aims.

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A heart that is without tenderness of mercy alone can inhabit a body able to endure and to suffer all.

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When thou hast gained thy throne, yearn not weakly for the love of thy subjects lest they perceive thy weakness and one day overthrow thee; as by blood thou gainest thy crown, through blood only shall thou retain it.

Friday, December 2, 2011

This post serves to inform the public of examples which might be though to somewhat contradict the “women are not violent,” “women are always victims” and “women only use violence in self-defense” stereotypes that are promoted so frequently and widely by misandrists.

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Lizzie Halliday, known in New York state in her day as “the worst woman on earth,murdered at least six persons, attempted to murder two others and is suspected of having murdered others. Among her victims were two husbands – one of whom survived a poisoning attempt – a retarded step-son, two neighbor women and two attendants in the insane asylum where she was sent in lieu of execution for three 1893 murders. One of the female attendants survived a strangling in 1895, the other Lizzie stabbed with scissors more than 200 times.

Maria Jager is unusual in having made a living as a serial killer in two separate enterprises in her village in Hungary. She started off as a midwife and “baby farmer” (archaic term for child care provider) who murdered babies for a fee. Later in life she switched to selling poison to those who wished to murder family members. She formed a small gang to help her in the business. In 1897 she was sentenced to life in prison for having participated in murdering a hundred men and women. A contemporary journalist noted that it “was her chiefest joy – to see the poison gripping at the vitals of the condemned. She watched their fight for life, and a fierce and horrible jubilation possessed her.”

Jeanne Weber, “The Ogress,” had a passion for strangling children to death. A simple French peasant who was tried for murder on three separate occasions, and found not guilty each time, was championed by famous lawyers and intellectuals who defended her as a supposed victim of persecution. Following her third acquittal in 1908 she was caught in the act of strangling and finally sent away to an insane asylum. In total she murdered seven children, including her own child and other relatives.

Énriqueta Martí, known after her arrest in 1912 as “the Vampiress of Barcelona,” kidnapped children, prostituted children to pedophile clients and murdered children to provide ingredients for “magic potions” she sold to wealthy citizens. “As ultimately pieced together by authorities, Enriqueta’s local crimes claimed at least twelve victims. But it is thought there were more victims because she kidnapped, prostituted, and killed children over a twenty year time period.” (Wikipedia) Martí died in prison in 1913, apparently having been murdered by inmates.

Mrs. Albert Steele, of Muskegon, Wisconsin, murdered her 11-year-old step-daughter out of jealousy for her husband’s love for the child. The murder took place in 1915. Other women have done such things for the same reason, but Mrs. Steele went about her business in a fashion that was unusual. She tied the girl to a chair, blindfolded her and then poured acid down her throat. Then, in an effort to simulate a botched abortion in order to give an explanation for the death as well as providing support for a false allegation of incest to be used after the “abortion” was discovered, the step-mother, mutilated the corpse and threw the naked body in an alley, partially covering it with sand. Mrs. Steele was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Vera Renczi, known to villagers as the “Mysterious Huntress,” a wealthy 30-year-old “single” woman residing in a chateau in Yugoslavia, was arrested in 1925 following an investigation in the disappearance of a young banker. In her wine cellar was found a cache of 35 hermetically sealed zinc containers inside which were the corpses of her poison victims: two husbands, a ten-year-old son and 32 lovers. Each container was neatly labeled with the name and the dates of the duration of her “relationship” with them.

Dianorah Galou, was known in Paris as “The Cat-Eater.”“If she is not one of the most monstrous women ever arraigned in a French court, certainly she is one of the most mysterious. Even the detectives who, in 1925, worked for months on her case were unable to agree as to just why she kept her wretched home running over with babies and to explain how she got them all and what finally became of them. What shocked the public most of all in the trial of Dinorah Galou was the prosecutor’s charge that she was quite probably one of many women who rent stolen babies at so much per hour or day to beggars and street venders of matches, flowers and other things.”

Helen Geisen-Volk was a professional child care provider in New York City. She was also a serial killer of children, with victims estimated to number between 23 and 53. Like scores of other child care providers in North America who were investigated and prosecuted for serially murdering and torturing the children they were paid to care after, Geisen-Volk was never convicted on a homicide charge.

Dorothea Irene Turley, of rural Arizona, had been in earlier life a beauty queen. In 1933 she decided to rid herself of her husband, so she plotted to have him killed by his own 15-year-old daughter, Mattie. Trial testimony show that on November 17, Mattie raised her own shotgun given to her by her dad and killed him as he carried a pail of milk from the cowpen. she testified. Having no animosity toward him, she did this tragic thing solely because the ouija board had commanded her to, and because her mother had assured her that edicts of the ouija spirits must be obeyed. Mattie understood, she declared, that “mother must be freed in order to marry the handsome cowboy.” The girl herself pleaded guilty in juvenile court and wan sentenced to an Arizona reform school. The mother, after fighting long and futilely for dismissal, was tried in the county court at St. Johns and convicted. Penalty for intent to murder is five years to life.

Viktoria Foedi Rieger hated men, and she acted on her feelings. Known by the nickname “Smoking Peter,” the divorced Hungarian woman dressed as – and passed herself of as – a man. After her arrest in 1933, it was discovered that Rieger was responsible for a long string of “suicides” of married men in the region. She had devised a routine in order to assist wives who wished to rid themselves of husbands whereby the victim would coaxed by the wife into a barn in which a pre-prepared noose was in place, then knocked on the head by “Smoking Peter,” placed into the noose and finished off by a “suicidal” hanging.

Georgia Tann, of Memphis, Tennessee is perhaps the most overlooked serial killer in history. It is quite possible that she was the most prolific serial killer of all. The number of her victims will never be known, but her murder spree lasted decades and records show that during a single winter, in 1945, her victims seem to have numbered 50. Miss Tann, who operated professionally from 1924 to her death in 1950, was famous as a child care expert and for having single-handedly established the adoption business as a respectable industry. She was also a pedophile, child kidnapper and child torturer who sold children for a substantial profit and would murder any unsaleable merchandise she had on hand. The children who lived, those whom she “placed” (including many kidnapped from the parent with the collusion of a female judge acting as accomplice) numbered 5,000. The murdered children are likely to have numbered in six figures as well.

Leonarda Cianciulli murdered three women, cut up their bodies and made soap and tea cakes out of their remains between 1939 and 1940 in Coreggio, Italy.

Rosa Pena, of San Antonio, Texas, murdered her three sons, David, 6, Alvin, 4, and Richard, 2, by drowning in the bathtub in 1958. Mrs. Pena openly told police why she did it: “I didn’t want my husband to have them. If I can’t have them, no one can.”

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NOTE: Among these cases, four are fairly well-known to students of crime: Cianciulli, Renczi, Marti, and Weber. Rieger is found in some compendia of serial killers, but the full story is not never given. The rest are virtually unknown to crime buffs and scholars.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

FULL
TEXT: New York, May 29. – Testimony is now being taken in New York in the suit
brought by Baroness Ursula von Kalinowski against Michael J. Hurley, paint
manufacturer of St. Louis, for $2,500,000 damages for blighted affections.

Affection
to the value of two and a half million dollars is certainly SOME affection even
when you consider that it was lavished upon the fickle and unworthy Hurley by a
high-born German baroness.

In her deposition the noblewoman said that she had followed
Hurley from one city to another in Europe and finally across the ocean in
response to telegrams in which he promised to marry.

I
think nearly all women FEEL the same way about breach-of-promise suits, to-wit,
that they are sordid, disgraceful, and that no really self-respecting woman is
ever involved in one.

But
if we accept the logic of the present economic status of woman we simply cannot
THINK as we FEEL on the subject.

A
woman like the Baroness Kalinowski has NO ACTUAL VALUE.

Without
either trade or professional training, her economic worth is represented by
zero. She has nothing to give anyone save the problematical quantity called
“affections.” Now affections when they are offered for sale are worth precisely
what you can get for them.

The
baroness thought she had arranged a life transfer of that exceedingly
perishable commodity to a man worth millions. If the buyer backed out of his
contract assuming there was one then the baroness is damaged to the full value
of her blighted hopes.

Admitting
that the woman who puts a commercial value upon her love sets herself before
the world as livestock. she is entitled to damages nevertheless, just as any
other prize animal is damaged in reputation and saleability if the man who has
arranged for this purchase refuses to complete the bargain.

There
is no getting away from the fact that so long, as sex is generally regarded as
something which women have to sell and men to buy, we shall have
breach-of-promise suits, the known as alimony and all similar social weeds
which owe their noxious being to the economic dependence of women.

Until women regain the eugenic choice of which she alone
among all females is deprived, she has the right to set a value in money upon
her alighted affections.

Her
affections are the tools of her trade, her means of livelihood. Damage to them
is the most serious injury she can receive. So long as she profits by their
disposal she must be damaged
by their rejection.

The
Baroness Kalinowski, and other women like her, are just a little more logical,
a little more cold-blooded, if you like, a little more sordid than millions of
their sister women, the pitiful peons of sex.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

FULL
TEXT: St. Petersburg, July 20. – A real live ogress with a desperate desire for
flesh and blood, having a daughter similarly depraved and numerous cannibal
retainers, has just been seized at Kurdla [place not located, see note].

People
remarked that numerous men and women, decoyed to the house of Ivanova Tamarin
and her 17 year old daughter, Olga, were never seen returning. The discovery in
a neighboring wood of corpses, mutilated beyond recognition, led to the house being
surrounded by a force of gendarmes under Colonel Vassiteff.

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GHASTLY EVIDENCE FOUND ~

Ivanova
and her daughter were secured after violent resistance, and a search of the
premises resulted in the discovery of 27 corpses in a storehouse, as well as a
great number of watches, purses and other articles of value, and a quantity of
male and female garments.

The
eating room of the house was furnished with a trap door, through which the
victims were precipitated into the cellar. In the cellar murderous instruments
and fetters of all sorts were found.

The
women confessed to being at the head of a band which, during recent months, had
robbed and murdered 40 people who had been decoyed to the house by Olga, and
mentioned thirty other peasants belonging to the band, who were also arrested,
while nine others escaped.

NOTE: “Kurdio” as a place name has not been identified. The word could be a reference to Kurdish ethnicity.

Previously, we considered the place name to identify a location in Estonia. The Russian names may or may not be good evidence of the proper location. They may be English transliterations of Russian transliterations from a different language.

Here is our original note arguing for an Estonian location: "Kurdio" is given as the place in this version in the San Francisco Call. The Los Angeles Times prints the same article, but with “Kurdla” instead of
”Kurdio.” “Kurla” presumably
identifies one of these two Estonian villages: Mägi-Kurdla, a village in
Laimjala Parish, Saare County in western Estonia; or Paju-Kurdla, a village in Laimjala Parish, Saare County in western
Estonia. A similar place name
in Estonia is: Kärdla, the largest town on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa
and the capital of Hiiu County.

Monday, October 17, 2011

There
are 24 known Cesarean Kidnapping cases, 25 if we include the institutional cases of
the 1976-1983 Argentinian “Dirty War.”

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 4): Philadelphia – A West
Philadelphia woman has been charged with murdering the mother of an abandoned
infant girl. Police said Margaret Sweeney, 26, had been hacked and shot to
death, then buried in a shallow grave after giving birth to another baby by
Caesarean section.

Detectives said Winifred Ransom, 36, allegedly struck Mrs.
Sweeney at least 20 times with a hatchet and snot her three times. She is
charged with murder, conspiracy; possessing an instrument of crime and
recklessly endangering another person, police said.

Police had been searching for Mrs. Sweeney since Thursday,
when her 18-month old daughter Tammey was found abandoned in a station wagon in
north Philadelphia. Mrs. Sweeney’s two other children live with her father,
William Griffith, in Nesco, N.J.

A newborn baby was found upstairs in Mrs. Ransom’s home.
Police said Mrs. Ransom knocked Mrs. Sweeney unconscious while she was visiting
at the Ransom home. She performed a Caesarian section on Mrs. Sweeney,
apparently because she could have no children of her own and “wanted a baby
badly,” police said.

When the pregnant woman regained consciousness during the
operation, Mrs. Ransom struck her with the hatchet and fired the shots,
officers said. According to police, Mrs. Ransom then buried the dead woman
beneath the floor boards of her kitchen shed.

Police said they were alerted to the murder by Mrs. Ransom’s
common law husband, John, 40, Saturday afternoon. Detectives said they found
the body wrapped in a white sheet inside a plastic bag. A hatchet was also
found in the kitchen, they said.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 4): Winifred Ransom, 37, was
sentenced Thursday [Jul. 10] by Common Pleas Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout to
an indeterminate term in the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry.

Mrs. Ransom admitted performing the crude Caesarean section
on Margaret Sweeney, 26, of Philadelphia and killing her with a hatchet and two
shots in the head from a 32-caliber revolver. The premature baby survived and
lives with her grandfather, William Griffith of Nesco, N.J.

Psychologist Jan Grossman testified in the nonjury trial
that Mrs. Ransom was driven by a psychotic delusion triggered by her inability
to have children. As a result, she could not tell right from wrong, Dr.
Grossman said.

Mrs. Ransom’s common-law husband, John, testified that his
wife told him she bore the child herself and killed Mrs. Sweeney when “she
tried to take my baby.” Ransom, who said his conscience bothered him, went to
police three days later.

Police found the body last Nov. 16 buried behind the Ransom
home [error: it was under kitchen floor].

FULL
TEXT (article 3 of 4): Psychiatrists have recommended the release of a woman
who was committed to a mental hospital 17 months ago for killing a pregnant
woman and cutting out her baby.

The
district attorney’s office says it is powerless to prevent the hospital from
letting the woman go because she was acquitted — on grounds of insanity.

Winifred
Ransom, 38, who admitted at her trial that she shot and bludgeoned the woman
and removed the baby with a butcher knife, is no longer insane, doctors at
Byberry State Hospital said.

Margaret
Sweeney, 26, the woman Mrs. Ransom admitted killing, was eight months pregnant
at the time of the incident in November 1974. Her infant, a girl, survived and
is being raised by relatives. Mrs. Sweeney and her husband were estranged.

Mrs.
Ransom was acquitted in July 1975. Psychiatrists testified at her trial that
she was driven by a psychotic delusion caused by her inability to bear
children.

Last
month, Judge Stout received letters from Dr. Albert Solomon and Dr. Juan
Villazon of Byberry, recommending that Mrs. Ransom be released.

The
doctors said that Mrs. Ransom remains “schizophrenic” but no longer requires
in-patient treatment.

“If
you discharge her,” Judge Stout wrote in reply, “she is your responsibility and
not mine. I really cannot understand how, in all circumstances of this case,
you can recommend discharging Mrs. Ransom to go out into the community and
resume normal life.”

The
request for release was the third from the hospital. Five months after Mrs.
Ransom was committed, doctors asked that she be released for the Christmas
holidays in 1975 because her condition had improved considerably, according to
court records.

But
she had not been declared sane and both the judge and the Philadelphia district
attorney denied the request.

Two
months later, Dr. George Buck wrote that the woman was “in good condition” and
should be transferred to an out-patient facility.

The district attorney’s office also denied that request and
wrote that “due to the horrendous nature of the offense... this office
seriously questions the advisability of such a recommendation by hospital
officials at this early date “

Joseph
Murray, chief of the homicide unit of the district attorney’s office, said
Thursday that although he was personally “outraged” by the present situation,
the district attorney’s office had no power to prevent Mrs. Ransom’s release or
to further prosecute her since she has been acquitted of the murder charge.

Doctors
involved in the case have not been available for comment.

However,
Dr. Anthony Dunfield, a spokesman for Byberry, said “We’re concerned about
doing what’s ethically and legally proper. There are civil rights involved ...
You can’t lock up a healthy person forever and throw away the key “

FULL TEXT (Article 4 of 4): Philadelphia – A woman who
performed a caesarean with a butcher knife so that she could have a child of
her own has been released after serving 20 months in a state mental hospital.

A spokesman at Byberry State Hospital said Tuesday [Mar. 8,
1977] that doctors were required by law to release Winifred Ransom, 38, at her
request after they had determined she was no longer, insane.

Mrs. Ransom admitted shooting Margaret Sweeney to death in
November 1974, and using a butcher knife to remove the woman's baby. The baby
girl survived and is being raised by relatives.

Psychiatrists testified at Mrs. Ransom's 1975 trial that she
was psychotic, out of touch with reality and driven by a delusion related to
her inability to bear children.

The doctors said they expected her to be hospitalized for “a
long duration.”

But by last December, Dr. Albert Solomon, who was treating
Mrs. Ransom, the Byberry Superintendent Franklyn R. Clarke, said she had been cured
and could be released.

Since Mrs. Ransom was acquitted because of her mental
condition, she cannot face charges in the killing again.

Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, who presided at the trial in
Common Pleas Court, call the situation “Really a sad state of affairs.”

Dr.
Jan C. Grossman, the psychologist who came up with the questionable opinion on
Winifred Ransom’s non-culpability in this case in 1974 received his M.A. in
psychology from Temple University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from Temple in 1973. He received his Juris Doctorate from
Temple in 1990. He is still in practice (2014).

What if Women’s Studies courses used cases like this to try
to convince students that Marxian feminism was justified in its claims of
female moral superiority, female non-violence, and the benefits of sexual
liberation? What follows is the saga of single mother Laura Lugo and her
run-ins with several other unmarried, independent – and strong – women.

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On
September 1, 1992 Paulyna and Rosa Botello lured Laura Lugo, 8 ½ months
pregnant, across the US/Mexican border to a clinic in Matamoros for what she believed
was going to be a routine prenatal exam. All three women were US citizens. Lugo
described how once she arrived at the Mexican clinic the doctors sedated her
and delivered the baby by Caesarean section against her will. When she awoke
she was told that Rosa Botello had taken the baby.

Rosa Botello had befriended
her while she was pregnant, steadily trying to persuade her to give the child
up for adoption after a sonogram revealed it was a boy. “I said, ‘No. Don’t
even think about it.’ I knew that I wanted the baby even more after I found out
it was a boy,” said Lugo, who already had three daughters.

The Bizarre Lugo
case was reported throughout the US, but newspapers made no mention of the baby
boy’s father.

Paulyna Botello’s lawyer in her first trial claimed Lugo had
volunteered to give up the child due to her financial problems. The story was
not believed by the jury. So in later court proceedings to wily Paulyna changed
her story and claimed that she herself was the mother of the contested baby.

It
would take over a year for Laura to get her son back from the kidnappers.
Paulyna Botello was arrested on October 24, 1992 in Mexico on a
child-trafficking charge, but the boy was put in the custody of Botello’s
relatives. Her sister in crime, Rosa eluded capture. Paulyna was tried for the
crime and on February 2, 1993 she was sentenced to three years in prison in
Mexico. Laura was still waiting to have her baby boy returned to her. But six
weeks later on March 25, 1993 the conviction was overturned based on trial
errors and the kidnapper was freed on bond and she fled to the US to avoid
retrial.

US officials were willing to arrest the fugitive based on a Mexican
extradition warrant, so on June 30, 1994, FBI agents in McAllen, Texas,
arrested Paulyna Botello for a second trial. The boy, who Paulyna Botello
claims is her natural child, was placed in foster care in Texas. Up to this
point Lugo has seen her son in only
three brief visits since he was born.

In a Texas court it was proven by DNA
tests that the contested child was indeed Lugo’s, so on October 7, 1994, mother
and child were finally reunited. Paulyna Botello is deported to Mexico. October
28, 1994. She would not be convicted until June 14 of the following year when
she was given a sentence of three years in prison but was allowed the
equivalent of a suspended sentence. Before this however, Laura Lugo’s story had
taken another dramatic turn.

On December 21, 1993, just eleven weeks after her
reunion with her kidnapped boy, Laura had disappeared. On June 4, 1995
unidentified bones were discovered in Brownsville. Police submitted the bones
for testing to determine whether they are Ms. Lugo’s remains. On September 29,
1995 police reported that first test results on unidentified skeleton are
inconclusive. The bones were submitted for further tests.

Investigation of Lugo’s
habits and movements led to the discovery of a “love triangle.” The police had their
suspect.

On September 10, 1999 Janet Ramirez was sentenced to 20 years in
prison for the murder of Lugo. Ramizerez, unmarried, who was having an affair
with a married man named Randall Ledbetter, with whom Razmirez had a child and
Lugo was likewise having an affair with him. Her vengeance against her
competitor for Ledbetter’s extramarital attentions manifested itself as she
posed as Lugo and made threatening calls to Ledbetter's wife. After she was
apprehended on suspicion of murdering Lugo, Ramirez claimed that Ledbetter
wanted Lugo dead because of the harassing calls and that he hired Roberto
Briseno to kill her. The jury did not believe her story and acquitted Ledbetter
and Briseno. Razmirez arranged a plea bargain and was sentence to 20 years in
prison.[Text by UHoM]

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Here is a sample of the sort of “first wives’ clubs” you
will find when you explore the collection of “Husband-Killing Syndicates.” Most
of these news accounts deal with Eastern European cases. Here is one from
Yugoslavia in 1926 called “The Lucretia Club.”

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FULL TEXT: Belgrade,
Jugoslavia — A club of women poisoners under the guise of a charitable
organization with the significant name of “Lucretia” has been raided by the
police.

Police asserted that at
secret meetings the club members were taught the medieval art of mixing and
administering poisons. Six women who were unhappily married were declared thus
to have found means of ridding themselves of their husbands. The remains of
these were exhumed and in two cases toxicologists have found traces of poison.

Five women of the club
were charged with being the ringleaders of the organization and arrested.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

FULL
TEXT: London, Aug. 10. – A coroner’s jury today decided that Louis Fisher,
refrigerating engineer of the United States Shipping Board steamer, American
Trader, died from “natural causes” and that Mary Waite, 24-year old stewardess,
did not intend to do him “any previous harm” in pouring acid over him while he
slept.

Fisher
died aboard the American trader at sea last Friday and Miss Waite was arrested
when the vessel arrived here. Captain H. C. Fish, master of the American
trader, testified that Miss Waite had told him she threw acid on Fisher to
disfigure him because of his attention to other women and that she had no idea
of ending his life.

Miss
Waite later appeared in the Dow street police court and was discharged. She
will sail for the United States tomorrow under a deportation order.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

A woman in her late 30s and her two teenage sons, born in
1986 and 1989, whose names were not disclosed, were arrested in November 2005
in in the Rostov region town of Krasny Sulin, about 925 kilimeters south of
Moscow, charged with strangling a man and eating his internal organs. Regional
police spokesman Alexei Polyansky stated they strangled the local man during an
argument. Polyansky said the suspects were being questioned and would be sent
to a psychiatric clinic to undergo tests. [UHoM]

FULL TEXT: Hobarton, Tasmania –
Elizabeth Cahy, p.h., was charged with a “common assault” on Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis on the 19th instant, by “then and there biting a portion of her right eye
brow off.”

The prisoner pleaded guilty, but
standing in her own defence.

Mrs. Lewis stated, that the prisoner
was in her service; at 10 o’clock on the night of the day mentioned, witness,
who keeps a public house, (the Freemason’s Arms) went to clear the Tap room,
when the prisoner prevented her; witness told her to go to her room, but she
refused, and rushed witness against a cask in her bar; she afterwards seized witness
by her hair, and pulled some of it out by the roots, and, then, bit a piece of
her eyebrow off.

A witness, named Margaret Davidson,
who was stopping at Mr. Lewis’ on the night in question, corroborated Mrs.
Lewis’s testimony, and stated, that the prisoner’s conduct was very violent,
and that Mrs. Lewis was bleeding profusely from theeye brow.

Dr Smart deposed to the nature of the
wound, which was about an inch in length, and half au inch broad; a portion of
the flesh had been torn off which Mrs. Lewis showed to witness: he sewed up the
wound which was not of a dangerous character.

Mr. Burgess said, that the Bench
adjudged the prisoner guilty; her conduct towards her mistress appeared most
brutish, and it was only in October 1854, that she received a sentence of nine
mouths’ imprisonment for a similar offence. She was now sentenced to eighteen
months’ imprisonment withhard labor.

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TEXT: St. Petersburg, Nov. 11. – A most horrible story of cannibalism is
reported from Bessarabia. A woman named Akkerman, a giantess in stature and
strength, sought shelter at the house of a peasant woman named Yooreski
Sariera. The woman and the peasant drank considerable, and when the supply of
vodka gave out, Yooreski went out to get another bottle. She was gone quite a
little time.

When
she returned she was almost struck dumb with horror on finding that her guest in
her absence had killed her baby, gnawed the soft parts of its body and sucked
its blood and brains. The woman was then in the act of attempting to kill
another child, a girl, who was seeking to escape from the hut, screaming at the
top of her voice. The mother rushed in and tried to save her child from the
murderess, but the latter struck the little girl with a bludgeon and killed her
before her mother could reach her.

The
mother's brain was turned by the terrible scene, and she became a raving
maniac. She attempted to kill herself, but neighbors who had been attracted to
the scene by her wild shrieks prevented her.

The
Akkerman woman made a most desperate resistance to arrest. She fought like a
tigress, and some of the peasants weft quite severely injured. She was finally
overpowered and bound with ropes. Five men accompanied her to the jail.

The
news of the terrible crime spread rapidly, and a number of men tried to take
the prisoner from her guards to lynch her.

The
woman was locked up. It is not known whether she is insane or not.

[“A
Female Cannibal - Kills Two Children of Her Host and Partly Devours One of Them
The Mother Becomes a Having Maniac Peasants Attempt to Lynch the Murderess.” syndicated, The Pittsburg Dispatch (Pa.), Nov. 12, 1892, p. 7]

In 2008 31-year-old Czech mother Klara Mauerova tortured her
two sons, 8-year-old son Ondrej and Jakub, 10,over a period of six months. She stubbed cigarettes out on their bare
skin, whipped them with belts and tried to drown them. Eventually Klara decided
to slice off sections of Ondrej’s skin and forced him to eat it. Karla’s
sister, Katerina, helped her in executing the tortures. Other relatives, among
them Barbara Skrlova, partook of the human flesh Klara provided. After their
rescue from their single mom, the boys said they were kept in cages or
handcuffed to tables, sexually abused, forced to cut themselves with
knives,and made to stand for days in
their own urine.

Klara claimed the activities were not her fault and that she
had been brainwashed by Barbora Skrlova. She explained herself in vague terms
using the passive voice: “Terrible things have happened. I realize it and can’t
understand how I could have allowed it.” During the trial the defense claimed
that the abuses were coordinated via text messages sent by a leader of the
Grail Movement cult, of which the defendants were members— who was known only
as the “Doctor.”

The Czech Republic court in Brno sentenced the mother,
KlaraMauerova, to nine years in prison. Her sister Katerina given 10 years. Barbora Skrlova, 34, got five years. Three others who took
part in the abuse were also given jail terms: Hana Basova, 28, and Jan Skrla,
25, 7 years each; Jan Turek, 5 years. [UhoM]

On August 28, 2008 in Kabul Afghanistan Ms. Jabarkhel,
daughter of Hudkhel, aged about 40, was arrested for kidnapping from her home
and biting to death an 8-year-old girl named Marwa. The child, who lived in the
eighth precinct of Kabul had opened the gate of her home to give a handout to
Jabarkhel. Gen Alishah Paktiawal, chief of the criminal investigation division
of Kabul police told reporters that the woman took her victim to the tent in
which she lives and proceeded to bite her until the child died. Ms. Jabarkhel
had consumed one of her victim’s hands before being apprehended. No other
details were offered. Police said they considered the murderess to be mentally ill
and they had not yet determined whether she had killed any others. [UHoM]

[Source: Based on BBC translation of National Afghanistan
TV, Kabul, in Dari and Pashto 1530 gmt 5 Sep 08]

On November 3, 2009 a woman identified by police as “Sunday”
was arrested in Juba in Southern Sudan after she was found in a cemetery near
Konyo-Konyo market feasting on a corpse of a child. Police were tipped off by
an area resident and arrived to find found Sunday devouring the corpse with red
and green paper and onions. Yet she managed to outrun the officers discarding
the body as she fled. She was located as she was just about to snatch a little
boy.

Mark Tombe, the Criminal Investigation Department officer in
Malakia police post, told reporters that "The woman wanted … to get
another baby to eat but police could not give her that chance,"

It was learned that Sunday had recently given birth at Juba
Teaching Hospital, according to Dr John Lomoro. At that Sunday revealed to
hospitalstaff that she intended to eat
the newborn. She managed to drink blood (presumably from the umbilical chord)
before doctors arrived to take the baby from Sunday. The mother then ran off.

Lomoro continued that she wanted to eat her
baby but the doctors came in to rescue the girl. “She ended up drinking the
blood of the baby after delivering her,” Lomoro said.

The rescued baby girl was dubbed “Innocent” by her
benefactors. [UHoM]